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Penalty for failure to attend within limits of estate in obedience to order of Revenue Officer.- If a person required by a summons, notice, order or proclamation proceedings from a Revenue Officer to attend at a certain time and place within the limits of the estate in which he ordinarily resides, or in which he holds or cultivates land, fail to comply with the requisition, he shall be liable at the discretion of the Revenue Officer to a fine which may extend to fifty rupees. 2[163. Prevention of encroachment on lands.- 3[(1) Where Government land or land which has been reserved for the site of village or for the common purposes or uses of the estate right holders or of the co-sharers therein, has been encroached upon by any person or co-sharer for any purpose including construction of a building or other structures or by planting trees therein, then- (a) the Revenue Officer may of his own motion or on the report of patwari of the circle duly verified by the Kanungo of the Circle or on the application of any estate right holder or co- sharers, after giving reasonable opportunity of being heard, shall eject him from such land by order 4[within six months from the date of taking of cognizance or from the date of receipt of such report or from the date of filing of such application, as the case may be, however, the period may